Another police raid on gay club. About 40 detained
About ten policemen in mufti have held
another "check-up" in the Minsk club "6A" this
month. The passport data of all present people were put down. About
40 of them were detained for identification and guarded to the police
department.
The police officers stated that the detention was
connected to the activities of the leader of "GayBelarus"
Siarhei Androsenka who was "doing the things he should not do".
Two weeks ago the police took away Androsenka's passport while he was
crossing the Polish-Belarusian borders and still haven't returned it
to him.
One of the detainees, who asked a policeman to
introduce himself, was forcefully pulled to a bus and then handcuffed
to a seat. Witnesses report rude actions towards the detainees of the
both sexes at the police department. All of them were prohibited to
use telephones and told they would be kept at the police department
till evening.
Bear in mind that this month raids on LGBT
parties have been held in Minsk and Vitsebsk. In the Vitsebsk region
the police started summoning for talks even ordinary visitors of the
parties, who were also shot on video.
Since the beginning of
January, at least 60 founders of the national youth human rights
association "Human Rights Center "Lambda" (the name
under which "GayBelarus" has been trying to legalize itself
for the second time already) have been summonsed for such talks in at
least 8 cities of Belarus.
The pressure on the LGBT-community
started about a week after the registration documents had been passed
to the Ministry of Justice.
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